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For tickets to the advanced screening of SOUTHPAW email “THE GREAT” to qhendricks@ndigo.com Billy “The Great” Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal), the reigning light heavyweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. Read More …

By Keisha Price Not even a broken tour bus that could stand in the way of singer Aretha Franklin performing to a sold-out crowd at Ravinia. In fact, within 10 minutes of the breakdown, the Illinois State Patrol arrived to escort the Queen of Soul and her entourage in a “queenly” fashion into Chicago. Read More …

Jada Pinkett-Smith Stripped Down Story and Photos By Cindy Barrymore Jada Pinkett-Smith has seen the adult entertainment industry from both sides – as an activist for a number of years and, more figuratively speaking, as an actress. Her advocacy work was inspired after daughter Willow saw African children being held captive Read More …

By David Smallwood If you are in the audience when the Naked After Midnight show commences at approximately 1 a.m. in the morning this Saturday night/Sunday morning (June 27/28) at the Uptown Underground Theater, 4707 North Broadway, this is what will happen: “You will find yourself experiencing the most exhilarating outer-body climax that could possibly Read More …

DO YOU WANT TO SEE MAGIC MIKE? ARE YOU IN THE CHICAGOLAND AREA? SEND AN EMAIL TO QHENDRICKS@NDIGO.COM SAYING “XXL” YOU COULD WIN TICKETS TO AN ADVANCED SCREENING OF MAGIC MIKE. . . MAGIC MIKE XXL In Theaters July 1st Rated: R SYNOPSIS Three years after he retired from stripping, Mike (Channing Tatum) reunites with Read More …

By David Smallwood Acclaimed actress and Goodman Theatre Artistic Associate Regina Taylor has a provocative new play about advancing technology’s impact on modern society running at the Goodman through June 21. The story of stop. reset. concerns Chicago businessman Alex Ames, who might have to shut down his long-standing African-American book publishing Read More …

By Okema Gunn San Andreas is one of those movies that when you see it, you know it has huge potential! For its opening weekend the film pulled off impressive numbers of $53 million, surprising people. There is no way to predict weather a film is going to be a flop or not. I was Read More …

By Okema Gunn Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) is a musical comedy released by Universal Pictures. The original film, Pitch Perfect was loosely based on Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate Acapella Glory by Mickey Rapkin. The sequel begins where the Barden Bellas (an all-female a capella group) perform at a national competition at the Read More …

By David Smallwood In 1965, Black business owners on the South Side of Chicago were frustrated because they couldn’t get money from mainstream banks due to discriminatory lending practices. Neither could the larger Black community, for whatever their financial needs might have been. So, deciding to “do for self,” a group of Black business people Read More …

Posted Online Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:31 a.m. CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) – One man was killed and at least 36 other people — including an 81-year-old woman — were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday afternoon and early Sunday. The 81-year-old great-grandmother, Iola Burress, was shot about 5 p.m. Friday, just minutes after Read More …

You could win an ENTOURAGE prize pack for that includes: a hat, shirt, selfie stick and 4 passes to see the film when it hits theaters. Email “I Want Entourage” to qhendricks@ndigo.com for a chance to win… SYNOPSIS Based on the popular HBO Series, the film picks right back up where the show left off. Read More …

Interviewed by Hermene Hartman Write his name down. TYLER SHIELDS. Hold on to this blog. If this was a newspaper or magazine article in print, I would tell you to preserve it. Tyler Shields is a young professional photographer living in Los Angles and his goal is to sell the most expensive photo ever. He Read More …

By David Smallwood E.Patrick Johnson performs his one-person show Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South in a special engagement at the Hal and Martha Hyer Wallis Theatre at Northwestern University May 28, 29, 31 and June 3-7. The performance is based on Johnson’s award-winning book of the same name, (University of North Read More …

By David Smallwood Throughout his long career, which has involved travel to various American locales, Dr. Carl Bell, a local and internationally renowned psychiatrist, was always struck by the finding that many poor Blacks were diagnosed as mildly mentally retarded, as well as the prevalence of premature births of Read More …

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) commences when our mighty Avengers attempt to break down a barricaded Hydra fortress of Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann) in the Eastern European country of Sokovia. Strucker uses the power inside Loki’s scepter to experiment on humans. Two mutants inside the experimentation camp are the twins, Wanda Read More …

Black men in America in many instances are being “hunted” in urban areas by a tribe of men in blue and black uniforms, also known as “the police.” Not all of the police are hunters, but too many of them are. The killing of Freddie Gray is Read More …

How did it happen? How did Chicago Public Schools let a no-bid $20.5 million contract go to the SUPES Training Program in the first place? What’s not being said here? What was SUPES teaching to the principals, who mostly already have postgraduate degrees? Why aren’t management courses in the graduate educational curriculum in the Read More …

Seven years after N’DIGO began in 1989, we constantly received calls from graduating high school students seeking financial assistance for their educational pursuits. Before I started N’DIGO, I was a college professor and administrator at the City Colleges of Chicago with responsibilities in recruitment, so the requests nagged at me because I wanted to help, Read More …

By David Smallwood In an unprecedented community event ranging from the Pullman Historic District to Evanston, more than 20 Chicago theaters, schools and organizations have combined to present The August Wilson Celebration from March 9 through April 18. This is an extensive exploration of the enduring impact of the work of the Tony Read More …

“Goodman Theatre honors August Wilson’s legacy with his Tony-nominated masterpiece, praised by Variety as “perfection…[a] work by a writer at the peak of his powers.” The civil rights movement is sweeping across Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1969, but the promise of a better tomorrow hasn’t quite reached all of the city’s residents, some of Read More …

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Cecil The Lion. So, Dr. Walter Palmer, a dentist goes to Zimbabwe for big game hunting. He pays $50,000 to the locals to take him into the bush to hunt. He kills the prized lion, Cecil. And then the stuff hits the fan. He is protested at home in Minnesota, he has gone into hiding and the lion story dominates the news. I have nothing against Cecil. Meanwhile we see story after story reported on how the men in blue are hunting down Black motorists. Truth be told, in America, a minor traffic ticket can get you killed if you are Black and don't talk to the police correctly or make a false move. The most recent tragedy is a man who was shot on the spot in the head for not having a license plate. Really. Where are our priorities. When did American make the rules for the lion in Zimbabwe. The lion story is gathering more sympathy than the human story. Priorities please. ... See MoreSee Less